Distribution of Income and Wealth in Ontario : Theory and Evidence /
This book provides an extensive survey of recent literature and a new source of income and wealth distribution data for Ontario, drawn from newly available microdata sets. It also presents an evaluation of the data as a basis for measuring inequality in the distribution of economic and well-being.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto [Ont.] :
Published for the Ontario Economic Council by University of Toronto Press,
1981
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- PART ONE: EXPLANATION OF INEQUALITY
- 2. Supply determinants and life-cycle behaviour
- 3. Selected demand-side determinants of the distribution of income
- 4. Distributional aggregation
- PART TWO: DATA ON DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME AND WEALTH
- 5. On measuring inequality
- 6. Incomes of individuals
- 7. Incomes of family units
- 8. Distribution of family wealth
- PART THREE: IMPUTATIONS AND ADJUSTMENTS TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME
- 9. Disposable income, under-reporting, and omitted receipts
- 10. Adjustment for cost of living and size of family
- 11. Adjustment for capital gains
- 12. Adjustment for family wealth holdings
- 13. Toward adjustment for net social security benefits: illustration with the Canada Pension Plan
- 14. Summary and conclusions
- APPENDICES
- Bibliography
- Backmatter